Economic growth will continue in the second half of 2002, say the nation's purchasing and supply executives in their 63rd Semiannual Forecast.

Frost & Sullivan's new study projects a boom in desalination plants in Asia.

ITT Industries has acquired the Pure Water Division of Waterlink.

Shore Industrial Supply Corp. has been appointed the distributor of Lochinvar boilers and water heaters for all of southern New Jersey.

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Dan Leff, former chairman/CEO of the Energy Services Div. of Enron Corp., has joined the Invensys division.

Gibralter-based Cool Chips plc unveiled a prototype cooling/refrigerating mechanism using quantum mechanical electron tunneling as the primary cooling mechanism.

Bonney Forge Corp. completed the acquisition of Houston's WFI International Inc. on June 4.

The Center for International Development at Harvard U. has created www.cid.harvard.edu/cidtrade where global trade negotiations can be tracked.

The following is an updated report by AGC's Ken Simonson, issued a month after his CWA address.